The Victoria & Albert Museum (London, United Kingdom) hosts the first in-depth survey of art, design and architecture of the 1970s and 1980s, examining one of the most controversial phenomena in recent art and design history: postmodernism.
It shows how postmodernism evolved from a provocative architectural movement in the early 1970s and rapidly went on to influence all areas of popular culture including design, art, music, film, performance and fashion. By the 1980s consumerism and excess were the trademarks of the postmodern.
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990 brings together over 250 objects, revisiting a time when style was not just a 'look' but became an attitude. On display will be the subversive designs of the Italian collectives Studio Alchymia and Memphis; graphics by Peter Saville and Neville Brody; architectural models including the original presentation drawing for Philip Johnson's AT&T building paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol; Jeff Koons' stainless steel bust of Louis XIV and an enormous recreation of Jenny Holzer's illuminated billboard Protect Me From What I Want.
Date: until January 15, 2012.
Place: Victoria & Albert Museum. Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. United Kingdom.
Opening hours: from Saturday to Thursday from 10am to 5.45pm. Fridays from10am to 10pm.
CAC de Málaga hosts the largest exhibition of Vik Muniz' work ever held in Europe
through December 2
Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910
from July 14 to October 14.
